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Child’s Play Fund Raising Update, with teaser

The Opposable Thumbs Child's Play Drive is still going strong. Our updated …

I'm not sure if someone linked to our little fund-raising activities here at Opposable Thumbs over the weekend or what, but in the past five days or so we've gotten a ton of donations out of the blue. Believe me, I'm not complaining. To answer the questions everyone is asking: yes, this is still going on. Yes, your recent contributions will get you in line to win some of our great prizes and, yes, you guys are awesome.

How awesome? $3,958 worth of awesome. This far exceeds anything I had hoped for in our first year of raising money for Child's Play, and the nice things people are saying in the e-mails have been icing on the cake. Remember, you donate to Child's Play, send in your receipt, and every $5 gets you one entry into the drawing. $20 is worth four entries, $200 is worth 40.

While I wanted to post our new total and let everyone know that we are still raising money and that all the recent donations have been added to the total, we're not done yet. This Wednesday we'll be posting our final prize, and it should be quite the hit for classic game collectors. While we can't give away the hundreds of games you get in other such contests, the items involved in our giveaway will make up for it in quality. I think it will be a very impressive end to our efforts here.

Keep it coming, guys. My new goal for the drive is $5,000, and that is well within our grasp.

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